Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number:1858R
Swedbank
8 February 2002


Swedbank acquiring an additional 2.5 per cent of FI-Holding

Swedbank will acquire an additional 2.5 per cent of the shares in FI-Holding,
thereby increasing its holding of the shares of that Danish credit institution
from 67.2 per cent to 69.7 per cent.

The acquisition will be effected through the utilisation by Arbejdsmarkedets
Tillaegspension, ATP, of an option to sell 25 per cent of its holding to 
Swedbank. By contract, Swedbank will pay almost DKK 178 million for 25 025
shares.

Finansinstitutet for Industri og Handvaerk (FIH), a wholly owned FI-Holding
subsidiary, is a leading figure in the Danish corporate market, with 6,000
medium and larger companies as customers, among them 116 of the country's 200
foremost industrial corporations.

For further information, please contact:
Annika Wijkstrom, Swedbank Executive Vice President and Head of Alliances
Division, phone: [phone] 

Staffan Salen, Swedbank Executive Vice President and Head of Communications,
phone: [phone] 


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